1. October 17
Cannon
Ch. 4

2. Bellwork:
Sketch a picture of your dream house.

3. Agenda: Notes: Diffusion of Culture Tourist Brochure – Time permitting
Homework:
Study for Chapter 4 Quiz and Map
AI Lecture Summary for Extra Credit

4. Objective:
You will be able to discuss how culture diffuses using historical examples.

5. Fun Fact:
Sea lions are the only non-human mammals that have demonstrated the ability to keep a beat.

6. I. Diffusion of Cultures

7. Electronic Diffusion
Globalization: the increasing connectedness of cultural, political, social and economic processes on an international level
Glocalization: adaptation of globalized products to local tastes and contexts

8. 3. TV!!!!!!*
Spreads popular culture
Most people watch TV to relax
Most people have TV’s

9. 4. Access to Cultures Changes the understanding of them
Cultural perception: attitudes/beliefs about a culture
Environmental perception: attitudes/beliefs about a place
Syncretism: fusion of old and new cultural values

10. 5. Geographers and Diffusion
Carl Sauer and Torsten Hagerstrand
- Identified the types of diffusion culture fits with

11. Torsten Hagerstrand - Space/Time Prism
Carl Sauer - Diffusion
Torsten Hagerstrand - Space/Time Prism
Defined as a set of all points that can be reached by an individual given a maximum possible speed from a starting point.
Defined cultural landscape is an area fashioned from nature by a cultural group.

12. Table Talk
What kind of diffusion does TV represent? Be ready to explain!

13. B. The Internet* Since 1995, it’s everywhere
Popular media spreads worldwide INSTANTLY
Social Media
Connects people and their experiences

14. Table Talk
How do you use the internet to interact with culture?

15. C. Access to Media Limiting Access:
Cultural Imperialism: most entertainment comes from USA, are we forcing our culture on others
News: governments or a few corporations are in control

16. Government censorship*
Political views
Social content (sex, drugs, gambling)
Security content
Tools ( , searching, hosting)

17. Top 5 Internet Censors
North Korea
Syria
Saudi Arabia
Iran
China

18. 2. Beating the Man Social Media > government control
Arab Spring 2011
#Blacklivesmatter
ISIS

19. I. Sustainable Culture

20. Popular culture is overwhelming/destroying folk culture
Challenges:
Popular culture is overwhelming/destroying folk culture
Assimilation: when a minority population loses its folk culture by joining the dominant culture
Acculturation: when one culture adopts/borrows traits of the dominant culture

21. What are some examples of folk culture disappearing?
Table Talk
What are some examples of folk culture disappearing?

22. Environmental Determinism Possibilism Cultural Autonomy
Cultural landscape: the ways humans change and add to the landscape (built environment)
Cultural Ecology
Environmental Determinism
Possibilism
Cultural Autonomy

23. Uniform Landscape: popular culture results in places looking the same
EX: fast food, super market, gas stations
North America has uniform landscape and it’s spreading worldwide

24. How does this political cartoon illustrate the concept of popular culture? How does imply some of the concerns?

25. Both popular and folk culture produce a lot of pollution
3. Consequences
Both popular and folk culture produce a lot of pollution
solid, liquid, & gas waste

26. Animal products: fur, ivory, meat
b. Resource depletion
Popular culture has a lot of material = uses a lot of natural resources
Animal products: fur, ivory, meat
Recycling is helping with this problem
paper, plastic, aluminum, food

27. B. Core-Domain-Sphere Model
Core: area of greatest concentration of culture traits
Domain: area outside of the core in which the culture is still dominant but less intense
Sphere: the edge of influence for a culture region.

28. DRAW THIS Core Domain Sphere Figure 2.3 (p. 39) DISCUSSION
* Why does the reality of a culture region rarely follow the simplified model presented here?
* Does the Mormon culture region here pre-empt or overlap with the U.S. "Mountain West" culture region?
Sphere
Figure 2.3 (p. 39)

29. Ticket Out the Door
Discuss how culture diffuses using historical examples for:
Relocation diffusion
Expansion diffusion